Clasp is award-winning poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections titled ''Clasp,'' ''Cleave,'' and ''Clench,'' Ní Ghríofa engages in a physical way with the world of her subject matter. Her poems take readers on an intimate exploration of love, childbirth, and motherhood, and simultaneously to a place of separation and anxiety.